Dissertation committee:
Καλογήρου Γεωργία, Καθηγήτρια του Παιδαγωγικού Τμήματος Δημοτικής Εκπαίδευσης του ΕΚΠΑ
Πάτσιου Βασιλική, Καθηγήτρια του Παιδαγωγικού Τμήματος Δημοτικής Εκπαίδευσης του ΕΚΠΑ
Μαλαφάντης Κωνσταντίνος, Καθηγητής του Παιδαγωγικού Τμήματος Δημοτικής Εκπαίδευσης του ΕΚΠΑ
Δασκαλάκης Δημοσθένης, Καθηγητής του Παιδαγωγικού Τμήματος Δημοτικής Εκπαίδευσης του ΕΚΠΑ
Κακάμπουρα Ρέα, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια του Παιδαγωγικού Τμήματος Δημοτικής Εκπαίδευσης του ΕΚΠΑ
Κάρλα Γραμματική, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια του Τμήματος Φιλολογίας του ΕΚΠΑ
Δημάκη-Ζώρα Μαίρη, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια του Παιδαγωγικού Τμήματος Δημοτικής Εκπαίδευσης του ΕΚΠΑ
Summary:
The present doctoral dissertation examines the life and work of Giannis Hatzinis, who appears on Greek literature during the interwar period. The biggest and greatest part of his literal production is connected to Literary Criticism. He has gained many awards, by Greek and European intellectual institutions, for his critical articles and researches. His literary work is reduced to the novel “Tide”, edited in 1965.
Hatzinis is affected by 19th-century Romantic aesthetics and 20th-century Psychoanalytic Criticism. Often he invokes, in his critical notes, facts about the authors’ private life that are connected to their work. He tries, at the same time, to dive deep into their souls and conceives the existence of internal powers within the subconscious that function as motives to their literal production. However, in his critical notes, his approaches don’t adopt strictly the theoretical schemes of his era, but obey to the spirit of empiricism that dominates in Neohellenic Criticism.
The critic takes a clear position in the debate between scientific and impressionistic Critic in favor of the former. Hatzinis believes that the critic isn’t the cold researcher of a science but serves as the reader, that during the process of synthesis of critical completion, mobilizes his intellectual, spiritual and emotional attributes and these interact with the literal work and its creator.
The current dissertation examines the life of Hatzinis, as a critic and a citizen, in its first part and is divided in four chapters. The first chapter is entitled “The birth, the childhood and the years of youth of Giannis Hatzinis”, the second chapter “The professional career- mature period of Hatzinis’s life” and refers to World War II, Greek Civil War and his tenure at the Public Fund of Alexandria. The third chapter is entitled “The last years and the death of Giannis Hatzinis” and the fourth chapter of the first part has the title “The contribution of Giannis Hatzinis to intellectual institutions and collectivities”.
The second part of this dissertation examines the work of Hatzinis and is comprised of four chapters: the first with title “The intellectual environment of Giannis Hatzinis in Kallithea”, the second with title “Giannis Hatzinis and the Critic”, the third with title “General Overview of independent editions of Giannis Hatzinis” and the fourth with title “The social and ideological world of Giannis Hatzinis”.
The third part of this dissertation is comprised of two chapters. The first is entitled “Presentation of the Center for Studies of Neohellenic Literature Giannis Hatzinis” and the second has the title “Literary Education Programme”. The latter is addressed to students of Secondary Education. Its suggested activities can be selected by the educator based on age, the cognitive background and the skills of students.
Keywords:
Interwar, Literary Criticism, World War II, Citizen, Literary Education programme
